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[zimpok]

Greetings Terry,

Let me start by saying I love you magazine and find myself using information from it constantly. Thank you for providing such an informative site.

I am currently setting up a 55 gallon shallow reef tank. I have a 20L that I wish to set up as an algae/invert refugium.

1. What would be a good way of connecting the two tanks in a circulating water system?

2. I am putting the macroalgaes Dictyota sp, C. brachypus, Grassilaria sp, Halymenia sp, Ochtodes sp, and Ulva/Ulvacious into the tank. Is there any useful information you have on these types of algae?

3. I am putting Mysis shrimp and Gammarus shrimp into the tank. Would there be any problems with keeping these inverts with the previously mentioned algae? Would doses of iron into the refugium cause harm to these inverts? What kind of special feeding would I need for these shrimp?

[seamaiden]

This is for Terry, so I'll just say hello, give it a bump, and welcome you to reefs.org.